April 2011 and 5 Months old

I'm sorry I'm so behind on posting. April has been a busy month for the Schabows! Look at this total cuteness!! Nolan is growing like a weed and starting to show off his little personality.

Nolan is finally feeling much better and spending more time being happy than not these days.  It's a huge relief and in a way it feels like we are just really getting to know him because of it.  At 5 months, Nolan has just learned to roll from back to front.  He's loving exploring his toys and is getting really good at sitting up supported.  He found his toes this month and that's been super adorable - but now really challenges me during diaper changes  ;)

Nolan LOVES his bath time and is a ferocious kicker!

Nolan and I also took a trip to visit my family this April.  Nolan got to swim in a swimming pool for the first time.  He wasn't entirely sure what to think!  Here are a few pictures from our trip.

Here are some pictures of Nolan playing around with daddy this month too.  I feel like N is getting so big, but next to daddy he still looks pretty teeny!

And finally, here's a family photo from Nolan's first Easter!

Cooing & Rolling

In the last month Nolan has become quite the "coo-er". He's constantly "talking" to himself and mommy and daddy.  He's also constantly mouthing this toy - his new favorite!

 

He's also started rolling from front to back!

Smarty Pants

So of course since mommy does this for a living, we have been signing with Nolan from pretty early on.  He is still really young to sign back consistently or to initiate, but he has started to obsessionally imitate when I sign "change" (as in diaper change).  We got it on video and are super proud of our smarty pants little guy.  I can't wait until his signing really takes off!

4 months

So I realize a full month has gone by since I posted.  Sorry!  Things have definitely been crazy and now that Nolan is older he's napping less meaning less time for mommy to do things like blog  ;)

Nolan is now 14lbs, 11oz and 27" long.  He's in the 97th%ile for height and is as long as the average 7.5 month old!!  Holy Moly!  No wonder this babe kicked his way out a month early, ha!  The last month has brought us many joys as a family as Nolan is growing into much more of a little boy and less of an infant.  He's now rolling from his tummy to his back - this is his favorite new trick as it gets him out of much disliked tummy time.  He's grabbing at toys and putting everything into his mouth.  He copied mommy signing for the first time (video to come in the next post).  He's also quite verbal, cooing and having very serious conversations with himself and he's laughing now too.  It's super cute!

With the good have come tough times too.  We are STILL dealing with allergy issues, projectile vomiting sometimes as many as 20x/day, waking every 3 hours to eat all through the night and just a pretty uncomfortable and fussy baby.  I'm going to spare all the details for now as things are constantly changing, but good vibes and prayers are appreciated for us through this time for sure. We head back to the GI on Tuesday so hoping for more info/help then.

Here are a few pics from this month.  I've taken a handful of videos too that I'll try to post over the next week or so!

 

 

3 Months

3 months old!, 13.3 lbs, 24 1/4" long and handsome as can be  ;)

Nolan has been keeping us busy this month! He's definitely a growing boy and is much more alert and attentive these days. He's starting to really like looking at toys and faces and he's smiling a lot more! 

He's also much more vocal and loving that he's learned to pull his legs up and kick!  (you'll probably have to go to the blog to watch the video below)

This month also marked some other firsts:  Nolan's first (hopefully of many!) Packers superbowl victory!!!! Go PACK!

Also, Nolan's first attendance at a professional sports game.  We went to a Trailblazers game with some friends we made in our birth class.  Courtney and Michael have a 2 month old little girl, Stella.  They invited us to the game with them as they had free club-level tickets.  This turned out to be great!  It was nice to be out with friends who understand what having a baby is like but also when the crowd got too loud Courtney and I were able to sneak out to the club level lobby with the babies for a break, free snacks and we could still watch the game on tv. 

We are still struggling with a pretty fussy little guy trying to sort out his reflux, milk and soy protein allergies and we recently found out he also has pylorospasms.  We discovered this during an upper GI x-ray study when we watched him swallow 6 oz of barium, yuck!  Anyway, the muscle at the bottom of his stomach is spasming causing his stomach to take too long to empty.  Milk just sits in his stomach and mixes with his stomach acid and if it doesn't go down it comes up burning along the way.  Ouch!  So...add that to the mix and his tummy is still a mess.  The good news is he's getting older and gaining weight well and he should grow out of all of these things in time.  We just changed his reflux medicine again and he's had a really good couple of days, so fingers crossed that things will stay that way!  We are really, really thankful to have such a healthy, beautiful little boy and not a day goes by that we don't thank God for him! 

Follow up to Chatty Nolan

If you are following the blog in your email I just noticed the last post won't play as a video in your email. You'll actually have to go to the blog at: http://stinas-place.blogspot.com/

Chatty Nolan :)

Nolan was very chatty this afternoon.  He had lots of important things to say  :)